Escrick is a Village in the county of North Yorkshire.

Retail in Escrick

There are great places to visit near Escrick including some great waterfalls, ruins, historic monuments, hiking areas, villages, rivers and streams, towns, caves, limestone pavements, mountains, cities, historic buildings, hills, geological features, castles, old mines, country parks, parks, gardens and ancient sites.

Catrigg Force, Lockin Garth Force, Whitfield Gill Force, Slape Wath Waterfall, Mill Gill Force, Cotter Force, and Aysgill Force are some of Escrick best waterfalls to visit near Escrick.

Bolton Abbey, Byland Abbey, Norton Tower (ruin), Easby Abbey (ruin), Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden, Fountains Abbey (ruin), and Trig Point on Warrendale Knotts are some of Escrick best ruins to visit near Escrick.

Don't miss Bolton Abbey, Rylstone Crag and Rylstone Cross, Culloden Tower, and Robin Hood's Well (Fountains)'s historic monuments if visiting the area around Escrick.

There are a number of hiking areas near Escrick including Deepdale, Cotterdale, Southerscales, Ingleton Waterfalls Trail, Swilla Glen, Baxenghyll Gorge, and Raven Ray.

The area around Escrick boasts some of the best villages including Pool-in-Wharfedale, Askrigg, Hardraw, West Burton, Bainbridge, Aysgarth, and Malham.

Don't miss Whitfield Beck, Mill Gill, Hardraw Beck, River Wharfe, and Walden Beck at West Burton's rivers and streams if visiting the area around Escrick.

Escrick's best nearby towns can be found at Hawes, Skipton, Grassington, Richmond, Middlesbrough, Harrogate, and Settle.

Escrick has some unmissable caves nearby like Great Douk Cave, White Scar Cave, Yordas Cave, Gaping Gill, Janet's Cave, Horseshoe Cave, and Jubilee Cave.

Escrick's best nearby limestone pavements can be found at Southerscales, Malham Cove, and Warrendale Knotts Limestone Pavement.

Ingleborough is one of Escrick's best, nearby mountains to visit in Escrick.

The area around Escrick features a number of interesting cities including York, and Ripon.

Escrick has some unmissable historic buildings nearby like York Minster, Marton House, Norton Tower (ruin), Church of St Peter - Rylstone, Culloden Tower, and Beggar’s Bridge.

The area around Escrick boasts some of the best hills including Addlebrough, Embsay Crag, Rylstone Crag and Rylstone Cross, Warrendale Knotts, Giggleswick Scar, Blua Crags, and Sugar Loaf Hill.

There are a number of geological features near Escrick including Malham Cove, Grassington Lead Mines, and Brimham Rocks.

Escrick's best nearby castles can be found at Skipton Castle, Richmond Castle, and Bolton Castle.

The area around Escrick's best old mines can be found at Grassington Lead Mines.

Brimham Rocks is a great place to visit close to Escrick if you like country parks.

The area around Escrick features a number of interesting parks including Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden, Fountains Abbey (ruin), and Studley Royal Water Garden.

There are a several good gardens in the area around Escrick like Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden.

Don't miss Schoolboys Tower, Jubilee Cave, and Victoria Cave's ancient sites if visiting the area around Escrick.

Escrick History

There are some historic monuments around Escrick:

• Moated site and fishpond 140m south of St Helen's Church
• St Peter's Hospital, part of undercroft beneath the Theatre Royal
• The Abbot's Staithes
• Lamel Hill (Anglo-Saxon tumulus)
• York Minster cathedral precinct: including Bootham Bar and the length of City Walls extending round the precinct up to Monk Bar
• Round barrow on Skipwith Common, 830m south east of Adamson Farm
• Cold War period Royal Observer Corps Group Headquarters, Howe Hill
• York Castle: motte and bailey castle, tower keep castle (including Clifford's Tower), and site of part of Romano-British fort-vicus and Anglian cemetery
• Medieval stone town house known as The Norman House to the rear of Nos 48 and 50 Stonegate
• Danes Hills square barrow cemetery on Crook Moor
• St Mary's Abbey precinct walls
• World War II bombing decoy 500m east of Bland's Plantation
• York prebendary manor moated site, 300m north west of Hawthorn Farm
• Danes Hills square barrow cemetery, 300m south of Adamson Farm
• South angle tower of Roman fortress
• Round barrow on Skipwith Common, 690m north west of Horseshoe Pond
• Siwards How, south east of the water tower, Heslington Hill
• Fulford cross, 200m south west of the barracks
• Standing tower and below ground remains of St Lawrence's Church and associated burial ground
• City Walls, gates, posterns (not including the section from Bootham Bar to Monk Bar, N of the Minster, now part of National Monument No 13280), moats, mounds, Bayle (or Baile) Hill, St Leonard's Hospital and Merchant Taylor's Hall, Aldwark
• St George's medieval chapel 120m south of York Castle
• Merchant's Hall, Fossgate
• Round barrow on Skipwith Common, 810m south of Skipwith Church
• Kelfield moated site and fishpond, 180m north of Kelfield Church
• Kensbury moated site, fishpond and fragment of a medieval field system
• Round barrow on Skipwith Common, 800m south east of Adamson Farm
• St Andrew's College and moat, 440m north east of College Farm
• St Mary's Abbey
• Cawood Castle and Castle Garth: residence of the medieval Archbishops of York and associated enclosure containing gardens, five fishponds and a quarry pit